I started this piece after last year's bead show (!!!) and finally finished it. It is inspired by Leslie Frazier's Crystal Pave Pendant - actually, it IS Leslie Frazier's Crystal Pave Pendant, folded in half and stitched across the bottom! I got the inspiration when I was absentmindedly playing with the circular right angle weave disk. I had just returned from Colombia where the shapes of the pre-Colombian gold-work at the Gold Museum were dancing in my head....
I could not resist the similarity of the shape and the feel from the bronze colored beads.
The little sparkle comes from 2mm Swarovski crystals in a milky lavendar. The chain is just a single unit right angle weave, which gives the entire thing a rough and tumble look, like it was dug up on an expedition! I love this thing. Wore it to a work event last week and got loads of complements, which almost never happens when I wear my work (I usually get "huh, what is that?).
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